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How to Easily Create a Burning Skull Photoshop Composite
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How to Easily Create a Burning Skull Photoshop Composite

Quickly Learn the Basics of Photo Compositing and Manipulation in Photoshop. 100% Created for Complete Beginners!
Created byAdrian Scheff
Last updated 2/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • You’ll have FUN!
  • You’ll learn the absolute essential tools and commands for photo manipulation.
  • You’ll create from a scratch an amazing photo manipulation.
  • You’ll be able to create future professional digital art and photo manipulations all on your own.
  • You’ll learn to combine multiple images into a credible and authentic composition.
  • Become a better digital artist and designer.
  • You’ll learn how to create stunning post processing effects.
  • You'll impress your friends, family and coworkers with your newly acquired Photoshop skills.
  • You’ll be able to easily follow along listening to clear and precise explanations.
  • You’ll be introduced to a professional workflow in Photoshop, using smart objects and adjustments layers.
  • You’ll understand how to easily color correct imported external images.
  • You’ll learn professional design tricks to better visualize and asses your composition.
  • You’ll be well taught by a professional instructor with over a decade of Photoshop and teaching experience.
  • You’ll easily learn how to use groups and naming layers to keep your document organized.

Course content

1 section • 38 lectures • 57m total length

  • Introduction1:12

    Learn the absolute basics of Photoshop compositing and manipulation with practical, hands-on lessons, quizzes, and tips to boost your confidence and artistic skills.

  • Download Exercise Files Here0:01
  • Stock Images0:27

    Explore three stock images: a creepy skull, hot fire, and a foggy forest, to craft a striking burning skull Photoshop composite.

  • Prepare Background1:09

    Prepare the background for the burning skull composite by darkening the image with a curves adjustment layer, lowering luminosity and contrast, and applying magenta color balance in Photoshop.

  • Exercise2:25

    Practice creating a spooky atmosphere in a Photoshop composite by adjusting color balance with sliders on an adjustment layer to achieve dramatic red, green, or blue looks.

  • Save Your Document0:33

    Save your Photoshop composition by using a quick save shortcut, name the file, and finalize the save to complete your burning skull composite.

  • Quiz0:42

    Take a Photoshop saving formats quiz and choose between jpeg, bmg, and tef; pause to answer and confirm if you were correct, as the correct choice is C. diff.

  • Document Organization0:59

    Master document organization in Photoshop by properly naming layers, such as Daquan and the atmosphere, and grouping them with the group icon to keep the file tidy.

  • Quiz0:47

    Take this quiz to learn how to keep your documents organized by giving players proper names and grouping them; the correct answer is to name and group.

  • Make a selection of the skull1:02

    Make a selection of the skull using the quick selection tool, drag to refine, and accept rough edges for the skull composition.

  • Exercise1:50

    Practice using the selection tool with a medium brush to roughly select the shell while avoiding the ground, then refine the selection by brushing over missed areas.

  • Bring Skull into composition0:54

    Import the skull into your composition, rename the skull layer, and convert it to a smart object before resizing or transforming. Save your document and proceed to the next lesson.

  • Quiz0:48

    Engage in a quick quiz on save practices, learning to save as often as possible, preferably after every major change.

  • Resize Skull1:10

    resize the skull using transform scale to achieve proportional sizing, position it above the road, and save your document, noting that holding shift may behave differently across Photoshop versions.

  • Exercise1:42

    Practice resizing and positioning the subject within the outline in Photoshop using the transform and scale commands, then pause the video to compare your result with the outline.

  • Color Correct Skull1:09

    Adjust the skull's colors with a color balance adjustment layer, clip it, and blend yellow and red to reduce desaturation and green hues, preparing the image for hot fire effects.

  • Quiz0:42

    Test your Photoshop skills in a quick quiz by choosing the correct adjustment option—color balance—among color correct, posterized, and pattern.

  • Darken Eyes Skull2:14

    Learn to darken the eyes and nose of the girl in the skull composite by painting on a new layer with a soft black brush, applying multiply for creepier contrast.

  • Exercise1:42

    Participate in an exercise to select the brushtail brush and resize it to fill the image using the shortcut, by holding the right mouse button and dragging left or right.

  • Bring Fire Into Composition1:18

    Learn to bring fire into a Photoshop skull composite by resizing with transform, converting the fire layer to a smart object, and using screen blending to remove the background.

  • Exercise1:12

    Practice a fire blending mode technique by setting the fire layer to screen to remove the black background and reveal the fire, confirming correct results after the exercise.

  • Fire on skull sides3:29

    Add fire to the sides of the skull by resizing, duplicating, and warping the fire layer to fit its curve, then mask edges and mirror for the opposite side.

  • Quiz0:52

    Take a Photoshop quiz that shows how to modify a player's shape in detail using the transform command followed by the warp command, with the correct answer noted as B.

  • Fire On Lower Skull Sides1:33

    Duplicate and position fire on lower sides of the skull, use a layer mask and brush to hide edges, then flip and move copies to create a symmetrical burning effect.

  • Exercise1:32

    Practice a non-destructive Photoshop technique by using a layer mask and brush tool to hide the head of the night, ensuring precise, reversible edits for a burning skull composite.

  • Fire on Upper Skull1:50

    Learn to apply fire to the upper skull in a burning skull Photoshop composite by duplicating, positioning, masking with a hard brush, grouping layers, and saving the document.

  • Exercise1:30

    Create a group from all night layers in the lower panel and name it Night. Pause the video to verify the result, which becomes a group named Group Knights.

  • Add Shadow3:40

    Add a realistic shadow beneath the skull in a burning skull Photoshop composite by painting on a new layer, applying blur, and using multiply blending.

  • Quiz0:39

    Practice Photoshop blending modes by answering a shadow-layer quiz; choose multiply as the correct option and verify your understanding after posting the video.

  • Add Rain5:13

    Learn how to add rain in Photoshop to create a spooky scene by making a rain layer with noise and motion blur, refining with curves and screen blending.

  • Quiz0:51

    Take the quick quiz on brightness adjustments using the curves adjustment layer to brighten the rings, confirming your attention to the burning skull Photoshop composite lessons.

  • Add Fog2:17

    Add fog to the burning skull composite by creating a black filled layer, rendering clouds, and applying a screen blend with magenta color overlay to deepen atmosphere.

  • Quiz1:14

    Answering a Photoshop quiz on applying a color overlay through blending options and the color blending mode, using right-click layer options.

  • Post Processing 12:26

    Adjust the photo using a curves adjustment layer to create a darker or brighter mood, then add a vibrance boost to make the skull composite more colorful and intense.

  • Exercise1:23

    Boost vibrance or saturation using an adjustment layer in Photoshop to complete exercise 16 and test your knowledge. Compare your result with the video and practice to solidify the technique.

  • Post Processing 22:52

    Finish post-processing burning skull composite by creating a layer from visible layers, adding a dreamy blur at 64 percent opacity, then applying sharpen and a white vignette in multiply mode.

  • Quiz1:08

    Engage in a quiz on creating a burning skull composite through post-processing, adding a new layer from visible layers, using difference and soft light blending, and an invert adjustment layer.

  • Course Finish1:16

    master photo manipulations and photo compositing in Photoshop, using stock images to build a burning skull composition, with homework to recreate a similar scene and advance skills.

Requirements

  • Have Photohop installed on your computer. Any Photoshop version released after 2010 will work.

Description

This is a professional photo manipulation course. This course will raise your digital art skills and develop your Photoshop knowledge. You can use what you learn here to earn more as a freelancer or employee.

Start using Adobe Photoshop to create amazing photo manipulations NOW!

Look, it doesn’t matter care if you’re a complete Photoshop noob. Or maybe you’re an advanced Photoshop user. It doesn’t matter. Even if you’re a Photoshop master, chances are you will pick up a thing or two.

Either way, this course is the perfect choice for you.

Why Photoshop and why photo manipulations?

Adobe Photoshop is the world’s #1 software solution for creating digital art. Even if you suck at drawing you can still create digital art with Photoshop. This type of digital art is called photo manipulation.

You take some images, combine them in novel ways and add special effects. The results can be mind-bogglingly beautiful.

Impress your partner, friends, family, or boss!

They’ll be speechless when they’ll see your Photoshop work! I remember when I showed a close friend some of my work. He literally said: “Duuuude, really? You did this? Nooooo... How?”

That felt very good, I can tell you that.

Follow this course, work, and experiment on your own, and you’ll also get to impress your close ones.

Create an inspiring and jaw-dropping photo manipulation, alongside me.

You’ll practice alongside me and create an amazing photo manipulation. Easy to use project files are included. By practicing as we go along you will boost your confidence.

You’ll absorb professional techniques and tricks by doing.

Even if you have an old version (CS6, CS5, CS4) you can still learn professional techniques.

The techniques you’re going to learn will also work with older Photoshop versions. If you’re using a version released in this last decade, you’re good to go.

You can earn more money with these Photoshop skills!

Let’s not kid ourselves. Some of you might be using Photoshop to make a living. Some you might be thinking about making money with Photoshop.

Boosting your Photoshop and digital art skills will probably result in a bigger paycheck

Who the heck am I and why should you listen to me?

My name is Adrian Scheff and I’ve been successfully teaching Photoshop for 10+ years. Hundreds of thousands of students learned professional Photoshop with my gentle instructions.

Listen to what other people say about my courses and tutorials:

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The only confusing part to me was the curve adjustment for the girl with the blue and red bit. I didn’t really understand that step but I think there is only so much you can explain without showing it through video or something.

Still an amazing tutorial.”

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Simple things like Adding colour balance etc via the layers panel.

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Get rid of painful and ineffective Photoshop habits!

Do you enjoy painful and cumbersome Photoshop workflows? I know I don’t.

I remember the first time I used Photoshop for digital work. It felt like juggling 100 knives and getting cut all the time.

The good news is that you won’t have to suffer anymore. I’ll get you familiar with intuitive and pleasant to use Photoshop workflows.

This course will teach you a ton of powerful techniques:

• Getting started with Photoshop for photo manipulation.

• Using basic commands and techniques to solidify your Photoshop skills.

• How to create from scratch an amazing photo manipulation.

• How to create photo manipulations on your own, in the future.

• Useful design and digital art insights.

• Professional workflow in Photoshop.

• Use blending modes for special effects and positioning.

• Important tips on how to keep your documents clean and organized..

• And many, many more.

By the end of this course, your confidence as a digital artist will greatly increase.

Even you will be impressed by your newly acquired skills! I’m not going even to mention your friends or family.

They will literally swoon when seeing your digital art. Ok, maybe not literally. But you can be sure people will notice your improved Photoshop and art skills.

Are you ready to have fun with Photoshop?

Join me in this fabulous digital adventure!

Let’s have some fun together and create amazing art along the way!


Click the enroll button NOW!

I’ll see you in the first lesson!



Who this course is for:

  • Complete Photoshop beginners who want to learn the basics of photo compositing and manipulation.
  • Intermediate Photoshop users who want to pick up some extra photo compositing tricks and techniques.

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